ஒரு விவாதம் (2)

ஒரு விவாதம் என்ற பகுதியைப் படித்து விட்டு இதைப் படிக்கவும்.  இது பற்றி இரண்டு முக்கியமான கடிதங்கள் வந்துள்ளன.  கடிதங்களைப் படியுங்கள்.  பிறகு நான் எழுதுகிறேன்.

Dear Charu,

I had a thought to your question in the latest blog about Zero Degree’

I tried to write in Tamil; but found it was too difficult to translate.

I strongly object to the ‘stance’ paradigm.  

Is it not a petit bourgeois’ or a pseudo-proletariat’s pretension to seek refuge under the shadows of ‘anti’; either way he (Is this not akin to taking a stance?) fails to imbibe the truth. Post colonialism is an historical compulsion and neo-liberalism is a matter of personal choice. Here ‘personal’ is the collective conception of the rulers and to be endowed with the doctrines and ideas of neo-liberalism is the fate (not really the theist ‘fate’) of men, women and others of the damp squib anarchy and the stock market slavery. It is a pendulum that gets intermittently stuck that swings between the capitalistic and communist conundrums; both having heavily contributed to the post-colonial span of the modern world.   

The apparent neonatal description turning into neo-liberal allusions and suggesting, “Oh man, rather this is post-colonial” is the core and essence of creative assertions. It is an umbrella you fold and tuck in your armpit or open to shield against sunshine or rain. The creator did not have anything in his mind when he made it, though he was conscious of the consequences. This does not absolve the true intentions that satiate a common gullible observer (the reader was already enlightened to shed his innocence and upgraded to the creative world of chaos and pushed to the precipice to take a stand; the proverbial ‘stance’)

Here the pendulum suggests that it is stuck close to its anti post-colonial perambulations. Indian perspective alludes only to the inconsequential anti post-colonial dilemma; since it is an historical compulsion. To suck the breast or the feeding bottle? Neo-liberalism is just an afterthought; a hook that never latched on to the fish.  

Regards

Shiva

But there is more to say. If time permits…

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